Mumbai: With the idea of enabling a child who has studied in a BMC school to crack civil services exams, the BMC will be starting civil services awareness lectures for its high school students.
The programme is in collaboration with Balasaheb Thackeray IAS Academy in Prabhadevi. Students of about 400 BMC schools which have virtual classrooms will benefit from this.
“These children have dreams but they don’t have guidance,” said Vijay Kadam, founder of the academy. Speaking about the lack of awareness in Maharashtra about civil services, he said, “Even students of top colleges in the city don’t know the full form of UPSC. Similarly, even principals are unaware.”
The lectures will be held for a 45-minute period once a week for students of Classes 8, 9 and 10, with the first lecture beginning on 27 July. Around 55,000 students in these classes will benefit from this. The lectures will give counseling on what the civil services are and how one should prepare for them. “Faculty from Delhi and Pune will be coming to deliver the lectures,” said Kadam. “We want to see a child who studied in a BMC school to become BMC commissioner,” he said.
